Cigarette-extinguisher



A. MENSING. CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER. APPLICATION FILED NOV-1,1919.

1,366,675. I Patented Jan. 25, 1921,

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Application filed. November To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANTON B. MENSING, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gigarette-Extmguishers; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a view in side elevation, showing my improved cigarette-extingulsher as applied to a combined ash-tray and matchbox holder.

Fig. 2, a broken View thereof in vertical section.

- Fig. 3, a view thereof in transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

My invention relates'to an improved cigarette-extinguisher for use as a smokers ac cessory, the object being to produce a simple, convenient and effective device whereby cigarette smokers may readily extinguish the burning butts of cigarettes for quickly and completely extinguishin the same without staining or burning tie fingers and Without making the mess which usually follows the crushing of a cigarette stub.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a ci arette-extinguisher comprising an anvil and a plunger and having certain details of constructions as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in. the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, it is applied to a combined ash-tray and match-box holder of the familiar type though I do not limit myself to making this particular application of my invention. The circular cup-like ash-tray 4- is formed in its center with a concentric upstanding truncated cone 5 the circular fiat top of which is located substantially in the plane of the edge of the cup and forms the anvil 6 of my de" vice. Two upstanding transversely bowed arms 7 located opposite each other rise from opposite points on the edge of the saidanvil and en port a sleeve 8 mounting a plunger 9 the at lower face of which substantially corresponds in diameter to the diameter of the anvil and 'the lower end of which has an annular Flange or stop-shoulder 10 co acting with a flange 11 formed at the lower end .1, 1919. Serial N0. 33 L956.

of the sleeve 8 for preventing the plunger from being pulled upward out of the sleeve. Wide clearance-spaces 12 located opposite each other between the edges of the supports 7, provide for the introduction of the burning end of a cigarette such as 13, betFween the anvil and the plunger as shown in The upper end of the plunger 9 mounts a U-shaped match-box holder consisting of a frame or cage 14: containing a rectangular retaining-foot 15 over which the shell aor slip-cover of a standard matchbox is set in the ordinary way.

In using my improved'device, the match box holder is grasped by the fingers and the plunger 9 lifted above the anvil 6 sufiiciently for the insertion of the burning end of a cigarette through either one of the openings 12 into the space between the anvil and the plunger which latter is now crowded down. upon the cigarette by downward pressure upon the match-box holder. thus immediately extinguished, is then brushed into the ash-tray d. If preferred, the plunger 9 may be made to fit so snugly in the sleeve 8 that it will be frictionally held The cigarette Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan, 25 1921' therein or a spring may be provided fornorbox holder with an ash-tray, and do not claim such a construction broadly, nor do I broadly claim the combination with an ashtray of a cigarette-extinguisher comprising two jaws of which one is movable with re spect to the other, for crushinga cigarette introduced vertically between them and so extinguishing its burning end.

I claim:

1.. A cigarette-extinguisher, comprising a sleeve, supporting means therefor, a plunger mounted in the said sleeve and reciprocatable therein, and means co-actin with the face of the plunger for compressing the end of a cigarette,the said supporting means, plunger and compressing means being relatively arrange for the production of a clearance-space located between the plun er and compressing means and accessi is through the supporting means.

'2. lhe combination with an ash-tray, of a truncated cone rising in the center thereof to form an anvil, arms rising from the said cone on opposite sides of the-said anvil, a

' Leee ew sleeve supported byv the said arms "with e clearance-space between the sleeve and the arms to permit the introduction of a, cigarette horizontally over the said anvil, ahcl a reciprocatable plunger located in line with the anvil and passing through the said sleeve fer co-ection with the anvil.

In testix nony whereof, I have signed this speelficetlon 1n the presence of two subscr1bing Witnesses. I

I ANTON B. MENSING.

Witnesses:

LOUIS GOLDBERG, W. J. MIDDLETON. 

